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Apr. 1 – A poster arrived from CBS last week proclaiming in jagged, blood-red letters that “Helter Skelter” would be shown in two parts, tonight and Friday night. Then KNXT yelled “April fool!” or words to that effect. The local […]

AFTER TESTIMONY – Charles Manson leaving courtroom where he appeared as a witness in behalf of Catherine (Gypsy) Share. Manson, wearing his hair cut short, is manacled hand and foot. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 – Charles Manson testified Monday that […]

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 18 – Bruce McGregor Davis, 28-year-old member of the Charles Manson “family,” Monday was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Malibu musician Gary Hinman and Chatsworth ranch hand Donald (Shorty) Shea. The formal sentencing […]

KEENE, N.H. – A $650,000 suit against Linda Kasabian, formerly of Milford, star witness in the Sharon Tate trial, has been filed in Cheshire County Superior Court on behalf of the son of one of the murder victims. Hanna Promisca, […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 – Cult leader Charles Manson today in court calmly admitted to a detective that he had struck musician Gary Hinman in the head with a sword, held a gun on him and then ordered his death. […]

Newsman looks into a tunnel at the end of a chicken coop where sheriff deputies found five children living. The five children are believed to be the children of Dennis Rice, former member of the Charles Manson “family”, hippie cult […]

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 25 – Prosecutor Vincent T. Bugliosi Wednesday described Charles Manson as an evil, satanic killer who sent out his followers to murder the seven Tate-LaBianca victims. But, he declared in a powerful argument in the penalty phase […]

Jan. 27 – A jury of representative citizens has pondered the evidence and reached its verdict, and now the long and arduous trial phase of the Manson murder case is over. Ahead lies still more testimony as prelude to the […]

Rules Misspelled ‘Healter Skelter’ Inscription Found on Court Pad of Defendant and at Death Scene Lacks Value LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 – The prosecution tried but failed Thursday to introduce evidence that Patricia Krenwinkel printed the inscription “Healter Skelter” as […]

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 – Charles Manson visited Sharon Tate’s rented estate less than five months before she and four others were murdered there, the owner of the property testified Wednesday at the Tate-LaBianca trial.  Rudy Altobelli, who then lived […]

256 Homes Destroyed as Flames Burn 180,000 Acres LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 – The worst series of brushfires in Southern California history — including four which joined in one blazing perimeter from Newhall to Malibu — burned out of control […]

Aug. 7 – Death has eliminated a prospective prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial — a movie stunt man who claimed ownership of the gun thought to have been used in the first night’s slaughter. Goateed, one-armed Joseph Randall, […]

Miami, Aug. 7 – A Miami woman said today she had been “scared” into testifying for the defense in the Sharon Tate murder trial. And, she said, she was never given a chance on the stand to explain her testimony […]

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 5 – Charles M. Manson, who allegedly gave the orders which led to the killing last August of actress Sharon Tate and six others, is scheduled to meet today with Susan Denise Atkins, the principal witness against […]

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 — Police have found the gun believed used in the slayings of three of the five victims in the Tate murder case, it was learned Friday. The long-barreled .22-caliber handgun reportedly was located earlier in the […]

PALOS VERDES, Dec. 4 – For four months actress Sharon Tate’s father masqueraded as a hippie trying to track down leads on the five senseless Benedict Canyon murders. Handsome, youthful appearing Paul J. Tate, 46, grew a moustache and beard […]

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2 – Police believe they have solved the Sharon Tate murder case and that an occult band of hippies, directed by a leader who calls himself “Jesus,” committed the five killings. Members of the band — a […]

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 – Two young women and a man, former Hollywood residents, today were named in warrants linking them with the Aug. 9 slayings here of actress Sharon Tate and four friends in her Benedict Canyon home. In […]

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 – Police are seeking a nearsighted person with an unusually small, “volleyball-shaped” head as a suspect in the Tate murder case, it was learned Thursday. Detectives said they don’t know his name or anything else about […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 – Actress Sharon Tate and four others were shot and stabbed to death at her Benedict Canyon home by more than one person, possibly two or three, County Coroner Thomas T. Noguchi said Friday. Noguchi based […]